MEMBER STATES SHOULD KEEP OLAF IN LOOP OVER INQUIRY FOLLOW UPS
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER states of the European Union (EU) could be required to keep EU anti-fraud office OLAF informed about progress law enforcement teams make in response to its reports highlighting financial crimes. This proposal has been written by the European Parliament into OLAF's founding EU regulation - currently under review. MEPs also want the independence of OLAF's director general clarified, tabling a clause saying the DG "shall neither seek nor take instructions from any government or any institution, body, office or agency in the performance ...
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